Budette is hot… which is a strange thing to say. But, with his sister being the Playmate of the Year, is it any question that Bud would be anything but a hot chick? Oh, yeah.
I drew Bud and Jeff in the first panel along the lines of how I use to draw them back in 2008. I do a better job with cartoon hair today. Bud’s shirt is back to the original design (it was ruined the last time he transformed on the “Road Trip” saga, if you remember), so I’m trying to stay a bit true to what originally transpired. I also think of shit like that, being the Geek that I am.
The final frame is my homage to a great article from the November ’78 issue of National Lampoon which was written by John Hughes, who was relatively unknown at the time. Yes, the director of “The Breakfast Club”, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and “Sixteen Candles” wrote for National Lampoon. He did two similar articles where a young boy, or girl, mysteriously gains the sexual organ of the opposite sex for a day. “My Penis” and “My Vagina” are two of my favorite articles from those years in National Lampoon. Mainly as I actually read them. I bought Lampoon for the comics (duh) and the True Facts stuff they had. Plus the killer stereo ads they had. So, anyway, the illustration for “My Penis” has always made me laugh. From the moment I saw it, I always wanted to draw it. I attempted too back in 2008 and did a piss poor job of it. Today’s final frame captures it nicely. I’ve added it below for you to compare. Cracks me up…
Golden Oldie today. From 1976 is Cliff Richard’s comeback single “Devil Woman”. It’s especially appropriate for a couple reasons. One, the Devil is who finally breaks Bud’s curse in the first place. And, two, apparently the song has some curse spinning gypsy woman in it as well. This is from Wikipedia: “The song is told from the point of a view of a man jinxed from an encounter with a stray cat with evil eyes, and his discovery that the psychic medium (a Gypsy woman) whose help he sought to break the curse was the one responsible for the curse in the first place.” Who knew. I just like the guitar riff. I rarely listen to lyrics… which gets me hate mail every time I say that.
Man, I haven’t thought about Devil Woman for years. What a smack to the back of the brain flashback! Thank you very much for that. I was living in Chicago (right at Palatine Road & 53 in Arlington Heights) when that hit, and I still remember the spooky, black hot nights filled with lightening that summer. Had to have been two or three tornado warnings a week for a month straight with monster anvil clouds sweeping by every hour through the evenings. The Brothers Johnson Strawberry Love Letter #23 and the Eagles Hotel California were in hard rotation with it a lot. Damn. Just time traveled 35 years in a couple short riffs there. Whooosh! 😀
And, there is no “legend” about toad licking. It’s the Real Deal. Tried that with peyote once. Didn’t have a live toad for it, but had the dried mucus collected from the skin of one. Aztec sleigh ride into the heart of the stars, you will stride across mountain tops and wade through deserts vast. Keep a doob stashed for the rising sun to kick it back in and come down natural across the morning sky. Hell yeah. 😛
Wow 3Xp4t! Great trip description! That sentence beginning with Aztec almost got me one of those flashbacks I was promised!
err Flashbacks, see I lost an “H”!?!?!
Bud IS hot…ewww I grossed myself out.
Why do people think gender transformation is funny?
I’m sitting here reading this laughing and thinking “This is kind of awkward when you think about it” at the same time.
Almost any type of unwilling transformation can be funny assuming it doesn’t go to the extreme of being horrific.
lmao
Seriously, Bud, that was dumb. I’m not complaining about the results, but it was dumb.
A curse that turns Bud into a woman! And apparently steals his pants…
And why was he wearing panties?
And now bud is hott!
God I miss Nat’l Lampoon from when it was in it’s heyday – early 70’s thru about the mid 80’s… Such an incredible stable of writters & folks who went on to big-time comedy & acting carreers associated with it. Unfortuneately, by about ’90 I found the content lamer & lamer… by the time it folded in ’98, it was a pale imitation of it’s glory days & pretty much sucked.
Cliff Richard; altho he never acheived the success in the US that he had in Britain & overseas (#1 selling singles artist in the UK, close to 20 #1 songs, over 250 million albums sold, putting him in with the same company as ‘Zep, Queen & ABBA, & outselling folks like Pink Floyd, AC/DC, the Bee Gees & the ‘Stones!) I thought he had well crafted songs that were definately a guilty pleasure of mine. I still enjoy “Devil Woman” & like 3Xp4t enjoy the ability of songs like that to transport ya back…
With you on the National Lampoon thing, I stopped reading it when P.J. left, but until then I loved it. I kept a few favorite issues and I have some of the best of collections. A particular favourite was the story that inspired the first vacation movie, and I loved the cover art, those fake Rockwell paintings were sheer undiluted genius. must look into that PDF thing.
My favorite cover (even if it is from after their glory days): http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5314942156_883ac655ed.jpg
I love the dragon’s sh*t-eatin’ grin…
I have that one!
Got love the oldies but goodies, as they seem to pop up in commercials, and television. Its amazing how many oldies radio stations that are out there, and who could forget the sound track to E-Z rider or Flashback. As I am writing this post I am listening to “Woman in Black” by Foreigner, ahhh the good old days seem better in the hear and now and that why 90% of my music is the oldies and moldies
After reading some of the story, and now that Bud is transform in a hot moma, you should have him run around for a week or so in the clothes and vehicle of the time, go out the a disco club, and so on and so on.
Disco Duck is alive and well, and living
And who could forget “The Jogger” by Ray Stevens
Gender transformation xD?
He could always be kind and let the little fellow free that’s what Susan does in my comic. Naturally the pink ladies are disgusted by her doing so.
Lucky guy he now she looks hot in pink fabulous sexy change.